Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-05-24
Tuesday, May a., 1887.

DIR. McGLYNN delivered q brilliant
and eloquent discourse On the "Sanc-
tity of Labor" before a big audience at
Cooper Union. New York city, the
other evening. DIR. McGlynn said
that he found In labor q peculiar dig
nifty which comes from a necessary
law. the law of nature, the law Of our
being. When we speak of labor we
speak of something very different
from the eager pursuit of its prey by
the beasts Of the forest; we speak of
something that is peculiarly character.
istic of man, who, while he shares
with the beast creation qualities that
go to make up an animal body is yet
conscious Of something more than an
animal. He. above all visible things,
is able TO ask: "Whence am y? Why
am | here, and whittier am ] Journey
ing?" This rational animal, consci-
Gus of his capacity TO know the trut.,
is conscious of a dignity imme surably
superior To anything else In creation.
He becomes conscious at the same
tine that he is capable OF loving the
good and discriminating il from evil;
b. is conscious of a liberty within him
that makes his soul the mistress of his
choice, and so he is conscious that he
alone Of all visible creatures walks this
goodly babitation that God has made
for. him, n free man, the master of
himself. Man thus becomes conscious
of an aesthetic sense that requires es-
thetic satisfaction. He is conscious
that man requires something more
than material food or raimeDt or
shelter, that IL be had nothing higher
than these things to seek In the world
he would be but like the brute that
perishes. In laboring,
man is conscious that he Is obeying ii
law. and he of all creation alone IL
capable of understanding what law 10.
1t is not labor that we should quarrel
with, but excessive labor; it Is the un-
duly heavy burdens tibet are put upon
some of the laborers, while others
labor not, toll not, neither do they spin.
1t is the unwholesome. unhealthy, un-
HYGIENE surroundings Of labor
that we complain Of. 1t Is the con-
demning to labor of little men
and little women whore mus
cles are not yet properly hardened for
labor. 1t is the combining In the work
shop of little children who should be
nj play. 1t IL the coDdemuing to irk-
some and ill.requited toll in unwhole-
some rooms of mothers who sh ,uld
have no other care but that of their
little ones. 1t Is the condemning to
toll of women who should be venerat-
ed with a peculiar defence. 1t Is of the
unjust. the harsh, the horrid burdens
that are placed upon the laborer that
we complain, and not OF labor itself.
We ARE all the children of God, and
therefore brethren, u to the other,
from the fact of The greaI truth that is
the text and the gosnel OF this labor
movement-the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood OF man. Man
being n land animal. 1t Is n violation
of the dignity and sanctity OF labor to
discriminate a. against any one OF
Gods children, or 10 deprive any Of
them Of the perfect, absolute, equal ac'
cess to all the bounties Of nature. In
order 70 assert and reassert and vindi.
cate the saDctity of labor, IL Is neces.
ssry 10 give TO all men what they alb
solutely need, In order that they may
have he freedom OF exercising their
labor; and that Is equal access to the
workshop and the magnificent, bound
less stores Of materials with which
God has enriched Ii. = There
are In the world and there have been
for many a day sets Of men-a priv.
legged ~few-wbo, by the sanction Of un-
just laws and customs. are permitted
To ~monopolize those bounties and TO
charge the highest price that they can
extort for the use OF these bounties
that God made equally for all. Now,
1t is q necessary part of the resssertion
ofthe dignity and ssnctity Of labor
that we shall abolish all such monopo-
,ly, because 1t IL by the abolition oil
private ownership In the general gifts
of nature that we shall be able TO assert
the God-giving freedom OF labor, with.
out which II matters not whether YOU
call the man slave OF o BY the
necessary operation Of 9 Law which
will work as mercilessIy rs the law Of
aravitatiou. man will sooner or latel
become worse than the chattel slave,
o fthose who own the land. 80 20,
cannot have free men without abso
Iuteiy equality In the distribution o
natures goods.